Wood-Engraving in Germany in the Sixteenth Century--Albrecht Dürer--_Coronation of the Virgin_--The Apocalypse--The Little Passion--His Engravings on Copper--The Triumphs of Maximilian--The _Triumphal Arch_--The _Triumphal Car_--The _Triumphal Procession_ 69 CHAPTER IX Hans Holbein--_Dance of Death_--Bible Cuts--Hans Lützelburger--_Dance of Death Alphabet_--The Little Masters--Altdorfer--Beham--Brosamer--Aldegrever--Cranach 81 CHAPTER X Wood-Engraving in Italy and France in the Sixteenth Century--Giuseppe Porta of Venice--Geoffroy Tory and Robert Estienne of Paris--Borluyt's _Figures from the New Testament_--Christophe Plantin of Antwerp 89 {ix} CHAPTER XI Wood-Engraving in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in Italy and England--Printing in Chiaro-oscuro in Venice--Printing in Colour in Germany--_Habiti Antichi e Moderni_ by Vecellio--Wood-Engraving in England--Foxe's _Acts and Monuments_--Holinshed's _Chronicles_--_A Booke of Christian Prayers_--Dr. Cuningham's _Cosmographical Glasse_--_Æsop's Fables_--The French engraver Papillon 99 CHAPTER XII Thomas Bewick and his Pupils--_Select Fables_--_History of Quadrupeds_--_History of British Birds_--_Æsop's Fables_-- Prices at which these books were published--Death of Bewick 108 CHAPTER XIII Bewick's Successors--John Bewick (his Brother)--_Looking-glass for the Mind_--_Goldsmith's Poems_--_Somerville's Chase_--Robert Johnson--Charlton Nesbit--Robert Elliot R. Bewick--_History of Fishes_--Luke Clennell--William Harvey--George Bonner--W. H. Powis--John Jackson--Ebenezer Landells--Robert Branston--F. W. Branston--John Thompson--J. Orrin Smith--John and Mary Byfield--Samuel Williams--W. T. Green--O. Jewitt--C. Gray--S. Slader--J. Greenaway--W. J. Palmer--German Engravers--Modern English Engravers 116 INDEX 129 {x} [Illustration: THE WOOD-ENGRAVER _By Jost Amman_ (1568)] {1} A BRIEF HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING ------ CHAPTER I _ON THE EARLY PICTURES OF SAINTS_ Many volumes have been written on the subject of Wood-Engraving, especially in Germany, Holland, and Belgium, where the art first flourished; as well as in Italy, France, and England; and some of the best of these books have been published during the present century.